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Simply define medical microbiology |
It's the study of causative agents of infectious diseases in humans, and reactions to such infections |
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Medical Microbiology involves |
etiology pathogenesis lab diagnosis specific treatment control of infection(immunization) |
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mention the divisions of microbiology |
Bacteriology virology immunology mycology (study of fungi and their pathogenesis) protozoology(pathogenic unicellular animal organism) |
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Who discovered living cells and devised the simple microscope and when? |
Robert Hooke, 1665 |
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Father of microbiology? The discoverer of bacterial(animacules) |
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek |
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Whose work began the Golden age of microbiology? |
Pasteur's work |
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Who discovered the germ theory of disease and mycobacterium tuberculosis and when? |
Robert Koch(1867) |
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State the kochs postulates |
Pathogens must be in all cases of the diseases Pathogen must be isolated and grown in lab, pure culture Pathogenesis must cause the disease when introduced in healthy lab animals Pathogen must be isolated from diseased lab animals |
